No one in this thread has dedicated hundreds of posts to tearing the new songs apart. Maybe a dozen.
Best Thing sounded even worse than it did on the album IMO. Dragged terribly, Bono sounded awful, the guitar tone lacked the crunch of the studio take, etc. It was a mess. At least when they were awkwardly rolling out Sexy Boots, we had the let me in the sound portion to look forward to each time. I always thought that was cool. Every second of Best Thing sounds like lame dad rock.
Bullet, in contrast, oh my GOD. If they dropped that song this week, do you really think the consensus in here would be so mixed/negative? Fuck no. That's a song that sounds like it matters today. Relevant, scary, brilliant. Nobody in here is hating just to hate. U2 can still sound amazing in 2017, the new stuff just sucks because it's written poorly. Pretty sad to me how much less passionate they sound performing their newest material compared to something written 30 years ago, but that's what they've become and I hate it.